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Send us a textSunday Morning Poetry: The Fountain by William WordsworthThis is a follow up to the previous poem "The Two April Mornings." Here Wordsworth is exploring character that we tend to spend very little time thinking about. In other words, they are on the edge of our consciousness.How can a young person learn from an old person? It seems paradoxical that you have to experience something in order to understand it and yet elders are constantly giving advice based on their experiences.This poem is a conversation poem. Young and old are sitting beneath a tree by a natural fountain, when seemingly out of nowhere, the old man grows melancholy. He's remembering his past.The poem explores loss and grief and has the very memorable lines: "the wiser mindMourns less for what Age takes away, Than what it leaves behind."THE FOUNTAINBy William WordsworthWE talk’d with open heart, and tongue Affectionate and true, A pair of friends, though I was young, And Matthew seventy-two.  We lay beneat